Showing posts with label Gene Expression. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gene Expression. Show all posts

ENCODE/Junk DNA Fiasco: John Timmer Gets It Right!

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John Timmer is the science editor at Ars Technica . Yesterday he published the best analysis of the ENCODE/junk DNA fiasco that any science ...

Ed Yong Updates His Post on the ENCODE Papers

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For decades we've known that less than 2% of the human genome consists of exons and that protein encoding genes represent more than 20% ...

More Expert Opinion on Junk DNA from Scientists

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The Nature issue containing the latest ENCODE Consortium papers also has a New & Views article called "Genomics: ENCODE explained...

Splicing Error Rate May Be Close to 1%

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  Alex Ling alerted me to an important paper in last month's issue of PLoS Genetics. Pickrell et al. (2010) looked at low abundance RNAs...

Junk RNA or Imaginary RNA?

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RNA is very popular these days. It seems as though new varieties of RNA are being discovered just about every month. There have been breathl...

I Don't Have Time for This!

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  The banner headline on the front page of The Toronto Star says, "U of T cracks the code." You can read the newspaper article on...

What's the Connection between Hpa II and CpG Islands?

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  Epigenetics is all the rage today but the idea that gene expression could be regulated by modifying DNA and/or chromatin has been around f...

The Ribosome and the Central Dogma of Molecular Biology

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  The Nobel Prize website usually does an excellent job of explaining the science behind the prizes. The STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF THE RIBOS...

The Origin of Dachshunds

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  A draft sequence of the dog ( Canis lupus familiaris ) genome has been available for several years. One of the reasons for working with do...